(2002 est. pop. 70.4 million). Hebei (Hopei, Hopeh) Province in northern China covers an area of 187,700 square kilometers, borders in the west on Shanxi, in the north on Inner Mongolia and Liaoning, in the east on the Bohai Gulf—part of the...

Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hubei. Coordinates: 40°50′N, 115°20′E Hebei (help·info) (Chinese: 河北; pinyin: Hébĕi; Wade-Giles: Ho-pei; Postal map spelling: Hopeh) is a northern province of the People's Republic of...

The owner and operators of the tanker involved in South Korea's worst oil spill denied any wrongdoing Thursday and offered sympathy to locals affected by the environmental fallout.The Dec. 7 accident occurred after a barge owned by South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group slammed into Hong...